Bodkin.



No. 774,585. 1 PATENTED NOV. 8, 1904.

M. L. HOTGHKIN.

BODKIN,

APPLICATION FILED NQV.28,1903.

N0 MODEL.

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UNITED STATES MABEL L. HOTCHKIN,

Patented November 8, 1904.

OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BODKIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 774,585, dated November 8, 1904. v Application filed November 28, 1903. Serial No. 183,069. (No inodel.)

To (All whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MAB LL. HOTGHKIN, a v citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of the city, county, and State of New York, have made a new and useful Invention of a Bodkin, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a new form of bodkin, so made that when in use in threading ribbon through material the ribbon will be drawn through the material and left in place perfectly flat and smooth. I attain this object by the form of the said bodkin illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-' Figure 1 is a plane or top view of the bodkin; Fig. 2, a longitudinal section view, and Fig. 3 a cross-section view at the line D D.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The bodkin G is made of one piece of resilient material (steel, bone, celluloid, &c.) having near one end an eye A and at intervals along its length clips. One end of each is free, so as to permit the ribbon to be slipped under each after being threaded through the eye, and such clips having the open end alternately on the opposite side of the bodkin. These clips are formed by making a cut through the material of which said bodkin is made of the shape shown in Fig. 1 at B B B, the portion thus freed on one side being forced upward and shaped as shown in Fig. 3 at B, so that each of the said clips shall be raised slightly above the top of the shaft of the said bodkin. The said clips may be made,

as described above, by cutting entirely through the bodkin or they may be made by cutting only partially through, thus leaving the shaft of the bodkin solid instead of having a hole through it under each clip, as would be the result of manufacture in the first-described method.

I am aware that prior to my invention bodkins have been made in divers forms, but none in the form of my invention, having clips for holding the ribbon along its length, and I make no claim hereinafter broad enough to include forms of bodkins already patented; but

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A bodkin having an eye at one end, and clips at intervals along its length; said clips having a slight space between the under sides of the said clips and the shaft of the bodkin, and each clip being attached to the said shaft of the bodkin by one of its ends only, leaving the other end open so that thin material, such as ribbon, can be slipped between it and the shaft of the bodkin; such free ends of the clips being alternately on opposite sides of the shaft of the bodkin, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, at New York, this 21st day of November, 1903.

I MABEL L. HOTCHKIN.

Witnesses: IRA JAY DUTTON, RAYMOND Oo'r'rn. 

